The main problem is that Win11 can only run in special hardware and Microsoft can pry out my potato computer from my cold, dead hands. I won't change my hardware to update my OS.
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Well, Microsoft said way back when that "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows" so a lot of enterprise went to it. To this day I'm dealing with vendors that have a certified "Windows 10-only" solution. Another funny one is stuff like Ford's FDRS software still only officially supports Windows 10 Pro.
Platform changes and all that are fine, but when Microsoft says basically "This is gonna be your LTS forever" and then bails on it, shit like this is no surprise at all.
The moment I can verify a solution for my music production workflow on Linux, I know that I'm out as well.
Where are you on that process? I do 2D visuals and i'm at the point where all software that i use is available on Linux, but i have yet to actually try it in practice
Have you tried something like Wine or even Proton for it? I know that Proton is thought as more for games, but it runs Windows apps in general. Just add the app as a "game" in Steam and tell it to run with a version of Proton.
Im at the same point. I spent quite some Money on Studio one and plugins....i'll probably try a setup with Wine and/or Yabridge soon. Wouldnt mind that much if i had to switch to Reaper.
What do you do? I have been doing some hobby stuff with generating music once a few months.
Nothing serious, but music seems to actually be the only area on desktop (outside of development) where Linux is fully competitive.
Gaming and Clip Studio Paint for me. (Maybe some other stuff that I just haven't thought of.)
Needless to say, every day my Windows 11 machine bugs out on me I get closer and closer to just giving Linux a solid try for the first time since college.
Hmmm.... Maybe people using windows 10 really do love the full screen ads! Yeah! They missed the ads so they went back to windows 10 until they can get those ads in windows 11! Yup! That must be it!
I would double down on full screen unstoppable ads. Maybe one that looks like a BSOD? That would be lovely!
im forced to use it at work and holy shit. 11 is so heavy for no reason, 8gb of ram is not remotely enough anymore.
I'm pegged at 95% RAM usage all day at work 16 gigs and I'm not doing anything too heavy. Windows is a bloated gross mess
Wow, what is running in your background though?
I have Windows 11 and it uses a total of 5.6 GB of RAM (I'm also using a Surface Pro 7 if that matters) at idle. I would bring up task manager and see where all that RAM is going.
Same but I blame work. My surface tablet at home is vanilla windows professional and memory usage is fine with 16gb.
That said I don't use Chrome at home and Chrome is absolutely insane with memory consumption
It’s just a hunch, but my suspicion is it’s already capturing a lot of data for Recall to process later after it’s launched.
I can’t think of any other reasonable explanation for the severe performance decrease on Windows 11.
I think it's simpler than that.
I think Windows 11 feels unresponsive because of how many features have Internet-enabled features built deep into them. All those little delays opening menus, etc, I think are actually network delay, so the little ads or other stuff have time to fetch and load and show simultaneously with the rest of the UI. Meaning the UI itself has to be delayed slightly to make it less obvious what's being fed to you from online vs local.
Nothing makes my Windows 11 PC shit the bed harder than an unreliable or interrupted Internet connection. Literally crashing the whole PC sometimes.
Could be they already have their servers processing the data, and Recall is just their effort to offload the processing cost to the end user.
Or it’s just straight up spying.
well the market share of Windows 11 has risen significantly on my work laptop, and I can wholehearedly say, I understand why its global market share is falling...... random freezes, random restarts, battery life sliced, random starting up from suspend. it's not great.
meanwhile, Manjaro on my personal Lenovo laptop has been cutting edge with consistent updates for years.
Work computer just updated as well. Same dock and monitors but now when the computer wakes from sleep/hibernate the monitors attached to the dock just won’t come on about 80% of the time. So you have to unplug/replug in the dock to get the monitors to kick on. I can’t recall that being the case ever when using 10. Not a single time.
To make matters worse the first time it happened it wasn’t immediately obvious because the laptop monitor was blank. The login screen only shows on the primary monitor which is one of the external monitors. So the computer knows the monitors exist but for whatever reason can’t wake them up. Again never an issue before the update to 11.
I’m sure work loved me spending 3-4 hours mucking with stuff to unclusterfuck windows…our corporate machines still had the Xbox app installed. Thanks IT department! This was a custom image of win11 with all kinds of corporate branding bundled in.
I literally left windows because of the incessant ads for 11. The last straw was them forcing copilot on my windows 10 install, but a lot of other things were bugging me way too much before I kicked the bucket. Thankfully I have the help of a friend that uses Linux daily and my boyfriend who just knows a fuckton about computers, but after finishing the initial setup I haven't really had any issues
The only reason I'm still on windows is I run a weird 3 monitor setup on a Nvidia GPU.
Even then I could probably switch but I'm too lazy
If you feel up for it, boot into the live disk for Mint. Lets you trial the OS without touching your OS install.
But, I hear you on the lazy angle. Momentum is a hell of a thing.
Windows: you'll eat this slop even if we have to carve a hole in your throat and force it through.
And you'll like it and beg for more.
I really don't want to have to install it for work at all next year.
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